Solar share of electricity in South Africa in 2025 — 8.02%. Ranked 39 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 8.02 pp.
2000–2025 · % of generation
| Year | % | Change, pp |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8.02 | +0.63 pp |
| 2024 | 7.39 | +1.03 pp |
| 2023 | 6.36 | +1.99 pp |
| 2022 | 4.37 | +1.18 pp |
| 2021 | 3.19 | +0.29 pp |
| 2020 | 2.9 | +0.77 pp |
| 2019 | 2.13 | +0.36 pp |
| 2018 | 1.77 | +0.23 pp |
| 2017 | 1.54 | +0.35 pp |
| 2016 | 1.19 | +0.23 pp |
| 2015 | 0.96 | +0.54 pp |
| 2014 | 0.42 | +0.4 pp |
| 2013 | 0.02 | +0.01 pp |
| 2012 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2011 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2010 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2009 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2008 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2007 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2006 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2005 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2004 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2003 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2002 | 0.01 | +0.01 pp |
| 2001 | 0 | +0 pp |
| 2000 | 0 | — |
The share of electricity generated by solar plants in a country's total generation. The fastest-growing series in all of energy statistics: where twenty years ago the share was measured in hundredths of a percent, it now runs into tens. The figure depends less on how much sun there is than on policy and prices: the leaders are not the sunniest countries but those that started building earlier. The flip side of that growth is the daily cycle: at noon solar pushes out the other sources, and in the evening it is gone altogether.
Important: The World Bank has no separate series for solar — there it sits inside “other renewables” together with biomass and geothermal. Aggregates for groups of countries are weighted by generation in terawatt-hours and computed from 2000 onward: there is no weight before that.
Source: Yearly Electricity Data (Ember), license CC BY 4.0.
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